Halligan, Bondi, and Other Turkeys

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

For his latest periodic deep dive on the Department of Justice, Harry talks to DOJ veterans Paul Fishman and Amy Jeffress as well as reporter Anna Bower to assess an institution that looks to be coming apart at the seams. The panel digs into the political and legal flashpoints facing the Department, including its response to the embarrassing dismissals of the prosecutions against James Comey and Letitia James, the revival of possible contempt sanctions against the department, and the prospect that Pam Bondi may act as Trump’s firewall for the Epstein files. Mentioned in this episode: Anna's reporting: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/contributors/abower Judge Currie's ruling: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.583342/gov.uscourts.vaed.583342.140.0_2.pdf Harry's Substack on the ruling: https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/after-the-shipwreck Harry's conversation with Emily Bazelon about her reporting on the department: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PDKeMe1mXU&pp=0gcJCRUKAYcqIYzv Harry's conversation with Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis about their book on the department: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klVToztR8u0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.9	Welcome to Talking Feds, a roundtable that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests for a dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the day. I'm Harry Littman.
0:51.3	Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Normally, on a Thursday, you'd expect a talking feds one-on-one,
0:57.9	not a roundtable, but we decided to do something different and special for the holiday.
1:03.9	You'll hear two one-on-ones next week, and we'll be back to our normally scheduled roundtables
1:10.6	after that.
1:12.2	For the holiday today, we have a very special episode.
1:16.8	It's our periodic drill down on the Department of Justice, which has logged several tumultuous weeks.
1:24.3	The past month has exposed the political takeover of the department and the
1:29.6	accompanying deep discontent and demoralization of the people who are still working there and the
1:36.4	others who have fled. A federal judge dismissed the indictments of James Comey and Letitia James,
1:43.6	reasoning that rookie prosecutor
1:45.6	Lindsey Halligan was not properly appointed as the United States Attorney. The dismissals,
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